"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

On a fishing tour of the West Coast, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Spokane, Wash. He sneered: "Why, you can get more fish within 75 miles of the Waldorf-Astoria* than you can out here."

Vacationing Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the U. S. President, went fishing in the Haldensee, near Innsbruck, Austria. She landed a 2 1/2-lb. pickerel. Related Mrs. Roosevelt: "He jumped from the water once and seemed to give me a challenging look."

To a terrace in Gela, Italy, where a dance was in progress, went Benito Mussolini, brushed past the belles, gallantly danced with the wallflowers.

On one of the Channel Islands off the coast of England, George Abell, onetime society editor of the Washington Daily News, had been living with his five-year-old son Tyler. He sent the child out for a walk with his nurse. Down from the sky slipped an airplane carrying his onetime good friend, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson and Mrs. Pearson, divorced wife of Mr. Abell, mother of the child. They had followed Mr. Abell from the U. S. when they learned he had left through Canada contrary to a court order giving him six months custody of Tyler in the U. S. Mr. & Mrs. Pearson snatched the child up and flew him back to London. There they remained with him in a locked and guarded hotel room, sent out word they had an order restraining Mr. Abell from interfering. Sobbed Mr. Abell, "I will follow the Pearsons around the world, if necessary, to secure complete custody of the boy. I have been given a raw deal. . . ."

Adman and Author Bruce Barton entered unopposed the Republican primaries for a by-election for Congress in New York's silk-stocking 17th District. Said he: "The 17th pays a tremendous slice of the nation's tax bill. . . . Any nickel-in-the-slot district in the South or West gets more consideration in Washington. This is wrong."

To the training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where Champion Joe Louis was training for his fight with Welshman Tommy Farr, went his conqueror, onetime Champion Max Schmeling.

Said Pugilist Schmeling: "Hello, Joe. How you feeling?"

Said Pugilist Louis: "Hello, Max. How you feeling?"

Before starting on a cruise from Hamburg, Germany on her four-masted sailing yacht Sea Cloud, Mrs, Joseph Edward Davies, a director and largest stockholder of General Foods Corp., wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who last year took with her to the Soviet Union 2,000 pints of frozen cream, ordered from the U. S. two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, all packed by a General Foods subsidiary.

Asked a Manhattan reporter of Cinemactor Robert Taylor: "Listen, Mr. Taylor, would you rather be beautiful or brainy?" Answered beautiful Cinemactor Taylor: "I haven't any choice."

Of his own accord, prodigious Golfer John Montague (real name La Verne Moore) surrendered himself in Los Angeles to New York police, who want him in connection with a $750 robbery (TIME, Jan. 25; July 19). Awaiting him in the event of his acquittal are more than $300,000 worth of radio and sporting contracts. Paramount Pictures, which gave him a "sneak" movie test during his trial, would like to sign him. Music Corp. of America wants him to sing, the 1940 San Francisco fair wants him to give golf exhibitions, Wilson Sporting Goods Co. wants him to endorse a set of golf clubs ("Montague Wizards"). Waiting on Golfer Montague were a crew of crack lawyers. Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney with his friends Damon Runyon & Paul Gallico plan to appeal to Governor Lehman for clemency if he is convicted. Golfer Montague stands to make nearly $1,000,000 if set free.

Just back from Europe, Wilber Brotherton Huston, 24, "Brightest Boy in America" when he won the first Thomas Alva Edison scholarship to M. I. T. in 1929, announced he had forsaken an engineering career to work with the Oxford Group. He mused: "I'm an engineer, but I'd like to think of myself as a human engineer. We have plenty of engineers who can build bridges and machinery; but we need engineers today who can build nations; more particularly who can build the type of people who can get together to work out some of the plans we have for the future."

Last August Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 80-year-old President Emeritus of Harvard, flunked an examination now required by Massachusetts of all licensed drivers over 65. Month later he was able to pass and his license was renewed. Three weeks ago, driving from Cotuit, Mass, to Boston, Dr. Lowell drove into another auto, inflicting minor injuries on the occupants. That night, returning to Cotuit, he ran into still another car, suffered a fractured wrist and nose. As a result, Massachusetts' Registrar of Motor Vehicles. Frank A. Goodwin, to whom it was no news that Abbott Lawrence Lowell's driving has long been one of the wonders of Cape Cod, suspended his license, probably for good. Observed Registrar Goodwin: "I don't think Professor Lowell wants to drive again."

An epidemic of infantile paralysis in southern Ontario caused Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe to order that all visitors to the Dionne Quintuplets be kept out of the nursery grounds.

Ill lay: U. S. Senator Pat McCarran in Washington's Naval Hospital, from overwork; Cinemactress Ruby Keeler in Hollywood, from an appendectomy; Composer Richard Strauss, 73, of a severe cold, in a sanatorium in Garmisch, Germany; Admiral Nicolas de Horthy, 69, Regent of Hungary, of influenza, in Budapest; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 67, Indian Nationalist leader, of high blood pressure, in Bombay.

* His home when in Manhattan. Seventy-five miles from the Waldorf are the famed fishing grounds off the south Jersey coast.

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